Re: Firewire doesn't work after Hotfixes

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From: Shenan Stanley (news_helper_at_hushmail.com)
Date: 02/12/05 

Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:12:06 -0600

Peter Giotta wrote
> My computer doesn't recognize my external Firewire HD after I just
> installed the latest spate of Hotfixes from Microsoft. It would
> take a while to troubleshoot (have to uninstall the hotfixes, then
> install them one by one
> to find the culprit, rebooting each time - a lot of trouble!!!).
> Has anyone run into this problem? Any quick solutions.
> (Using WinXP Pro.)

Meena wrote
> If this issue is upon installing SP2 update, then you may like to
> visit the
> below MS site to download and install additional update to fix the
> firewire
> issue:
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5c076e4c-aec8-434d-9849-e668a50e6e81&DisplayLang=en

Peter Giotta wrote:
> Thanks, but I get a "The download you requested is unavailable" at
> this link.

Likely you should have copied the link instead of just clicking on it
because it may be so long it is splitting up..

"9849-e668a50e6e81&DisplayLang=en" may be the part of the link you are
missing.

Try this:
http://snipurl.com/cqbu

You will either have to validate or choose not to. 

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